(August 23, 2015 at 10:19 am)Pizza Wrote:(August 23, 2015 at 2:28 am)Kaninchen Wrote: As a Jew, one of the problems one often finds with talking to Christians is that because they see Judaism as an essential part of the Christian drama of 2000 years ago there's a tendency for them to have to invent a Judaism to make it fit into the script - what I call the "Christianity is Judaism plus Jesus/Judaism is Christianity minus Jesus" effect.That's likely the biggest problem. They don't care to understand Judaism on it's own terms, since they want to view it through their Christian prisma. This is especially truth of salesmen apologists. Understanding others isn't in the apologist's guide book. They just parrot what other apologists say about what the messiah is.
It isn't and never was and, no, Messiah isn't a God/Demigod concept.
Were the Jews in 100 BC expecting a messiah based on the prophecies found in the scriptures?
